19 Mainstream Media Highlights From Muslim Women’s Day

2017 has not been the easiest year. We’ve seen bans specifically targeting Muslims, America officially inaugurating a sexist as the president, and xenophobes everywhere bolstering discrimination. But don’t let that fool anyone – the #MuslimGirlArmy doesn’t let even the most heated hate get in the way of Muslim women’s history.

We teamed up with our allies to raise the bar to a whole new level of nuanced mainstream representation for Muslim women. tweet

This Monday, March 27, we celebrated our first ever #MuslimWomensDay. An idea, crafted by Amani Al-Khatahtbeh and bolstered by our team and collectively supported by a slew of powerful allies mentioned below, in fact swept the Internet by storm. Together, we were able to conquer it all, from widely circulated Facebook Live videos with magazines to the #1 trending hashtag on Twitter. The campaign raised the bar to a whole new level of nuanced mainstream representation for Muslim women.

As we gear up to tackle each day of every year that lies ahead, we look to a successful, beautiful, empowering #MuslimWomensDay as the example of how Muslim women’s voices should be considered and heard every single day: from ourselves and for ourselves. Here’s a look back at some of the top features with whom we are so thrilled to have collaborated on our historic holiday. Check out some highlights from the incredible content that our allies created to flood the Internet in honor of #MuslimWomensDay.

1. ALLURE

Allure also bumped to their Facebook page a Lifestyle article from this fall, which discussed fashion and makeup for Muslim women, particularly highlighting recent headlines in the context of some Middle Eastern societies.